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Offline bijou

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Detroit parents want DPS teachers, officials jailed over low test scores
« on: December 15, 2009, 02:27:55 PM »
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Impassioned parents demanded jail time for educators and district officials Saturday following the release of test scores that showed fourth- and eighth-graders had the worst math scores in the nation.
City students took the National Assessment of Educational Progress test this year, and 69 percent of fourth-graders scored below the basic level in math and 77 percent of eighth-graders scored below basic.
The Detroit scores on the progress test were the lowest in its 40-year history. The sample of students included 900 of Detroit's 6,000 fourth-graders and 1,000 of the district's 6,000 eighth-graders.



Sharlonda Buckman, CEO of the Detroit Parent Network, called for jailing and civil lawsuits against anyone in the city's educational system that is not doing his or her share to help properly educate children.
"Somebody needs to go to jail," she said in a tearful address to 500 parents gathered Saturday for the organization's annual breakfast forum. "Somebody needs to pay for this. Somebody needs to go to jail, and it shouldn't be the kids." ...
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Re: Detroit parents want DPS teachers, officials jailed over low test scores
« Reply #1 on: December 15, 2009, 02:37:08 PM »
Jail? :wtf2:
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Re: Detroit parents want DPS teachers, officials jailed over low test scores
« Reply #2 on: December 15, 2009, 02:40:45 PM »
Quote from: Ralph Wiggum on December 15, 2009, 02:37:08 PM
Jail? :wtf2:
It does seem a tad over the top, perhaps they should stop voting in corrupt Dems to run the place before they take that step.
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Re: Detroit parents want DPS teachers, officials jailed over low test scores
« Reply #3 on: December 15, 2009, 02:42:49 PM »
Quote from: Ralph Wiggum on December 15, 2009, 02:37:08 PM
Jail? :wtf2:

Based on the amount of tax revenue being taken by DPS at gunpoint, and a comparison of the DPS scores with - evidently - any other district's scores, it might be reasonable for a case to be made against DPS admin types for fraud and misappropriation of public funds.  It may well be interesting to see how this plays out.

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Re: Detroit parents want DPS teachers, officials jailed over low test scores
« Reply #4 on: December 15, 2009, 02:57:57 PM »
How much does a lack of parental involvement with their children and school play a part?
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Re: Detroit parents want DPS teachers, officials jailed over low test scores
« Reply #5 on: December 15, 2009, 02:59:54 PM »
That what you get with a bunch of union teachers that are also getting ready to vote on a new contract. These monkey's will probably strike.
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Re: Detroit parents want DPS teachers, officials jailed over low test scores
« Reply #6 on: December 15, 2009, 04:00:33 PM »
Sounds like a good way to deal with feckless union workers - perform or go to jail!  I wonder how long unions like the various teachers' unions would continue to be supported by teachers if that were the deal.
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